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Meta Further Opening FB Marketplace to Resolve EU Antitrust Complaint

Report from Bloomberg In Brief – Meta has announced a further opening of its Facebook Marketplace to classified competitors, allowing classified ad firms in Europe to place their listings on Marketplace through the Facebook Marketplace Partner Program. The cost for...

The GDPR One Stop Shop Mechanism Suffers Big EU Court Setback

Report from Irish Legal News In Brief – The EU’s General Court has sided with the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), made up of the EU’s national data protection authorities and the European Data Protection Supervisor, ruling that the collective can overrule a...

EU Online Disinformation Code is Being Formally Integrated Into the DSA

Report from EuroNews In Brief – The European Commission has announced that the Code of Conduct on Disinformation will be formally integrated into the Digital Services Act (DSA) governance regime in July. The EU effort to promote best practices to limit disinformation...

German FCO Suspects Apple App Ad Tracking Policies are Anticompetitive

Report from TechCrunch In Brief – The Bundeskartellamt, Germany’s national competition authority, has announced that it suspects that Apple is not treating third-party app developers as equally as required under the special German antitrust regime established to...

Progressive Global Big Tech Critics Call on Meta Oversight Board to Quit

Report from the Washington Post In Brief – The Global Coalition for Tech Justice, an international alliance of progressive Big Tech critics, has released an open letter calling on the quasi-independent Meta Oversight Board to resign to protest the company’s changes to...

Korea Competition Authority to Avoid US Trade Conflict Over Digital Regs

Report from Korea JoongAng Daily In Brief – The Chairman of the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC), South Korea’s antitrust regulator, has said that the government would maintain close dialogue with their US counterparts regarding its proposals to police giant digital...

Apple Pulls Strong iCloud Encryption from the UK Market

Report from the BBC In Brief – Apple has begun blocking users in the UK from using the company’s highest level of encryption to protect the security and privacy of photos, documents, and other content stored on the company’s iCloud backup system. The move is likely in...

DeepSeek Downloads Suspended in South Korea Due to Data Practices

Report from the New York Times In Brief – South Korea’s data protection authority, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), has suspended downloads of the DeepSeek app after investigating the data policies and practices of the Chinese AI startup and...

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